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David Lowe Collection, University Of Alabama School Of Law

Manuscript Collections

The David Lowe Collection consists of two sub-collections: the Student Unrest Collection (1970) and the Equal Rights Amendment Collection (1975-1981). The student unrest collection contains newspapers and ephemera, including reports and flyers, from the Tuscaloosa/University of Alabama community immediately following the shootings at Kent State University. This Student Unrest Collection also includes a radio interview by WUAL. The Equal Rights Amendment Collection contains newspaper and magazine articles and ephemera, including reports and flyers, dealing with the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment in Alabama.

Law School Homecoming Group Photographs, University Of Alabama School Of Law

Manuscript Collections

The Law School Homecoming Group Photographs consists of photographs of homecoming celebrants from the University of Alabama School of Law. The 50 photographs span the years from 1940 to 1994.

Vernon Nathaniel Hansford Collection, University Of Alabama School Of Law

Manuscript Collections

The Vernon Nathaniel Hansford Collection is comprised of various articles, letters, news clippings, and plaques that commemorate Hansford's achievements as a respected author, faculty member, and administrator.

Cecil Maxwell Deason Collection, University Of Alabama School Of Law

Manuscript Collections

This collection contains personal papers and photographs from Alabama state trial court judge and assistant solicitor Cecil Maxwell Deason from his times serving in the Pacific theatre of WWII, on the bench in Jefferson county, and in the solicitor's office.

Photographic Holdings, University Of Alabama School Of Law

Manuscript Collections

The Photographic Holdings of the Bounds Law Library include several thousand photographic prints and negatives. More than 1000 images are stored in the Special Collections vertical files.

John Patterson Papers, University Of Alabama School Of Law

Manuscript Collections

The John Patterson Papers consist of documents from Governor Patterson. The collection is comprised of materials from the Commission for Judicial Reform, including pamphlets, miscellaneous materials, letters, handwritten notes, and newspaper clippings.

Howell Thomas Heflin Collection, University Of Alabama School Of Law

Manuscript Collections

The Howell Thomas Heflin Collection documents Heflin's years as legal reformer and Alabama State Supreme Court Chief Justice, as well as his tenure as United States Senator through press clippings, scrapbooks, speech files, audiotapes, videotapes, press releases and statements, newsletters and various printed materials, photographs, negatives, campaign materials, and memorabilia.

Law Foundation, Farrah Law Society, Law Alumni Association Collection, University Of Alabama School Of Law

Manuscript Collections

The Law Foundation, Farrah Law Society, Law Alumni Association Collection includes photographs of the Law School Foundation presidents, Farrah Law Society chairpersons, and the Law Alumni Association presidents.

Law School Composite Photographs Collections, University Of Alabama School Of Law

Manuscript Collections

The Law School Composite Photographs Collection consists of copies of class composite photographs from the University of Alabama School of Law.

Thomas W. Christopher Collection, University Of Alabama School Of Law

Manuscript Collections

This collection includes administrative items regarding UA's School of Law and various personal items and notes from Dean Thomas W. Christopher.

Southern Courier Newspaper Collection, University Of Alabama School Of Law

Manuscript Collections

Produced by Peter Cummings and Ellen Lake, two Harvard journalism undergraduates and veterans of the 1964 Freedom Summer, Montgomery's Southern Courier serves as an important primary source of the civil rights movement.

National Bankruptcy Review Commission Papers, University Of Alabama School Of Law

Manuscript Collections

The National Bankruptcy Review Commission Papers consists of fourteen cubic feet of manuscripts, typescripts, photocopies, and printed materials accumulated by Mobile attorney Jeffery J. Hartley during his service as a member of the Commission.

Miscellaneous And Oversized Materials Collection, University Of Alabama School Of Law

Manuscript Collections

Various oversized materials including newspapers, photographs, legal documents, a drawing, a map, and a diploma.

Pelham J. Merrill Collection, University Of Alabama School Of Law

Manuscript Collections

The Pelham J. Merrill Collection includes personal docket books, scrapbooks, photographs, awards, and publications pertaining to Justice Pelham J. Merrill, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama. The docket books span the years 1953-1976, and the scrapbooks span the years 1919-1985.

Mirza Anwer Beg Collection, University Of Alabama School Of Law

Manuscript Collections

This collection consists of a large number of books, files, photographs, and notebooks on topics ranging from Islam and Islamic/Arabic themes to poetry and art as well as topics on law, diplomacy, history, and philosophy.

Turner Reavis Collection, University Of Alabama School Of Law

Manuscript Collections

This collection includes documents, photographs, and materials pertaining to the life, career, and extended family history of Turner Reavis (June 18, 1812 - June 13, 1872). Reavis was a businessman, attorney, judge, state senator, and a published author.

Jay Wesley Murphy Collection, University Of Alabama School Of Law

Manuscript Collections

The Jay Wesley Murphy Collection is comprised of personal and professional papers, including arbitration case files, audiotapes, notes, transcripts of classroom presentations and discussions, and books.

Thorington/Mccall Book Collection, University Of Alabama School Of Law

Manuscript Collections

The Thorington/McCall Book Collection is comprised of 283 volumes of various late-nineteenth, and early-twentieth century digests, pamphlets, reporters, treatises, and government documents which belonged to University of Alabama School of Law Dean William Sewell Thorington and members of his family.

Bedeviled Advocate Collection, University Of Alabama School Of Law

Manuscript Collections

The Bedeviled Advocate collection consists of several volumes of the Bedeviled Advocate newspaper, which published stories concerning Alabama and national politics. The collection contains the following issues: January 12-26, 1987; September 15-December 22, 1987; January 5, 1988; February 2, 1988; March 8-May 19, 1988; May 26-September 22, 1988.  Numbering was re-started at Volume 1 on September 15, 1987 and the newspaper was re-named "The Advocate" in early 1988.

B. L. Roycroft Collection, University Of Alabama School Of Law

Manuscript Collections

The B.L. Roycroft Collection consists of a 1916 leather-bound ledger from Roycroft's grocery and general merchandise store at West Blockton, Alabama. The volume contains information of accounts and purchases from an early-twentieth century small Alabama general merchandise business.

September 11, 2001 Memorial Newspaper Collection, University Of Alabama School Of Law

Manuscript Collections

Contains newspaper reports on 9/11 from Tuscaloosa, Birmingham, Huntsville, Montgomery and Mobile, Alabama, as well as a New York Times pictorial report on the year 2001 as a whole. Also contains several national newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times, the New York Law Journal, and the Wall Street Journal, printed directly following the attacks of that day.

William Thomas Lewis Collection, University Of Alabama School Of Law

Manuscript Collections

This collection includes a number of awards, personal papers and photographs, and workplace materials owned by William Thomas Lewis.

"A Southerner's Plan For Desegregation" Journal Collection, University Of Alabama School Of Law

Manuscript Collections

“A Southerner’s Plan for Desegregation” is a 13-page memoir and manifesto concerning aspects of civil rights. It was anonymously written in the 1950s. The work is composed in a Queen Elizabeth II coronation journal.

Gary L. Aldridge Collection, University Of Alabama School Of Law

Manuscript Collections

This collection consists of a desk and chair set from the old Alabama Senate Chamber, original artwork, and a number of personal items from Senator Aldridge.

Harold See Collection, University Of Alabama School Of Law

Manuscript Collections

The Harold See Collection consists of memorabilia from Alabama Supreme Court Justice and University of Alabama School of Law professor Harold See.

Hannis Taylor Correspondence, University Of Alabama School Of Law

Manuscript Collections

The Hannis Taylor Correspondence consists of two handwritten letters by Hannis Taylor to Professor J. B. Bury at Cambridge University. The letters are glued into a copy of Taylor's "The Science of Jurisprudence." The letters are dated October 14, and November 25, 1908, and concern the above work by Taylor.

Alabama Code Of 1975 Collection, University Of Alabama School Of Law

Manuscript Collections

The Alabama Code of 1975 Collection consists of materials from the 1975 revision of the Alabama Code. The papers contain 2 cubic feet of code revision proofs, 1 cubic foot of various memoranda from the Michie Company concerning the 1975 code revision, and 2 cubic feet of preliminary manuscripts.

George Alexander Lemaistre Collection, University Of Alabama School Of Law

Manuscript Collections

The George Alexander LeMaistre Collection consists of papers, books, pamphlets, student papers, and notes from professor George Alexander LeMaistre.

C. Ange And John Jackson Papers, University Of Alabama School Of Law

Manuscript Collections

An incomplete group of correspondence between John Jackson, of West Chester, Pennsylvania, and his lawyer, C. Ange, Esq., of Philadelphia, dated 5 Jan. 1857 through 27 March 1857. The topics of these letters include transactions between the two men.

Pharmaceutical Mergers: Do We Have The Right Cure?, Robin Feldman, Gideon Schor, Yaniv Konchitchki, Tanziuzzaman Sakib

Faculty Scholarship

Few federal agencies wield tools more powerful than the Federal Trade Commission’s authority to review—and deny—proposed mergers between companies. This authority is powerful for a reason: Large mergers can be uniquely harmful to the United States economy, potentially reducing competition, undercutting consumer choice, and inflating prices.

The pharmaceutical industry is particularly sensitive to merger harms, given the limited number of competitors and the inelasticity of demand for prescription drugs. As a result, when pharmaceutical companies seek to merge, the FTC often requires that one of the companies divest ownership of certain drugs not yet on the market—so-called “pipeline” drugs––to a …